At first glance, the decaying shipwrecks have long been integrated with the seabed and have become a habitat for various marine life.
On the sunken ship that has long been covered with seaweed, countless sea fish are leisurely swimming around the shipwreck.
Beneath the rotting planks, a lobster, tentacles extended, peered around. A few transparent jellyfish slowly emerged from the wrecked ship, and a moray eel lurked silently among the seaweed. Everything seemed so tranquil yet full of life.
As soon as he saw the situation on the operating screen, Lu Chuanbei immediately told the ocean exploration experts that Song Tiantian and his team had accidentally found a group of shipwrecks.
The experts hurriedly retrieved the images sent back by the drones operated by Song Tiantian and Xiangfangnan, and enlarged them in the screening room in the cabin.
It all started with the disappearance of the giant turtle and then the drone being kidnapped by an octopus. When they saw the image of the octopus holding the drone and disappearing near the shipwreck, and compared it with the image coming from the south, they discovered that there was a crack in the seabed under the seaweed near the shipwreck.
The octopus rushed into this crack in the seabed, trying to escape the big turtle's pursuit, but unfortunately not only did it fail to escape, it also led Song Tiantian and their drone to find a group of shipwrecks hidden under this crack.
When the real-time images came again, the expert group could not contain their excitement.
"It's them, we found them!"
"After more than a hundred years, we finally found these shipwrecks!"
"Hurry up, notify the higher-ups to send more salvage ships to salvage the sunken ship below!"
"Also, all the drones must return and dive into the cracks to survey. We must film and transmit back all the images of the shipwreck below as quickly as possible!"
"By the way, to the children who discovered those shipwrecks, please bring some snacks and milk over so our little guests don't get hungry while touring the ship. There's also tea on board, which is..."
Before he finished speaking, several experts turned their eyes, sneaked out of the cabin, took some snacks and milk from the kitchen of the exploration ship, and came to the deck. They exchanged (tricked) the drone from Song Tiantian and quickly began a comprehensive exploration of the shipwreck on the seabed.
[These two little guys are still inexperienced, so they just swapped out the drone like that]
[The experts risked everything to see the sunken ship as quickly as possible!]
Tiantian is still too naive. If she had a kindergarten diploma, she wouldn't have traded the drone so easily. But the way Tiantian drinks milk is still quite cute.
On the deck, Song Tiantian and Xiangfang Nan were sitting cross-legged, each holding a bottle of milk and drinking through a straw. The experts were almost fighting for the control of the drone.
Xiangfangnan took a few sips of milk and said, "Did you know that they brought snacks here just for the drones we have?"
Song Tiantian simply nodded: "I know."
"Then you gave them the drone."
"Why not?" Song Tiantian asked back, "The shipwreck has been found anyway, and I can't help with the rest, so I might as well drink some milk and rest for a while."
"You're right." Xiangfangnan said, looking at her: "Want to eat potato chips?"
Song Tiantian's eyes lit up and she nodded quickly: "Eat!"
[…So these experts thought they tricked Tiantian and the others into returning the drone with snacks and milk, but in reality, Tiantian and the others felt they couldn't help anymore, so they gave the drone away?]
[Luckily, I thought Tiantian and the others were being fooled, but now it seems these two little guys are as clear as a mirror!]
[So, don't underestimate your children. They might see things more clearly than you do!]
[I suddenly feel that Tiantian and Nannan have very high IQs. However, kids nowadays are also very smart and clever, and they are not as easy to fool as before.]
[That's right, it's true. If you underestimate the kids nowadays, you'll suffer a great loss! Of course, let's forget about the idiots like Nian Nian.]
[Hahaha, you above me look down on Tiehanhan. Let me tell you, if you underestimate Tiehanhan, you will also get into big trouble.]
[Yes, yes, the power of Tiehanhan should not be underestimated. Don't ask me how I know this, this is an ironclad lesson.]
After Song Tiantian and Xiangfangnan had some snacks to replenish their energy, they ran over to Lu Chuanbei and the others and watched them operate the drone. Song Tiantian looked at Lu Chuanbei's drone, which had just arrived at the edge of the shipwreck, and quickly said to him, "Dad, please help me find the big turtle. We can bring it back."
"Okay, let me take a look." Lu Chuanbei hurriedly controlled the drone to look around. He saw that the big turtle was happily enjoying the octopus in the sea.
Song Tiantian looked at the guy's leisurely appearance and couldn't help but smile and said, "Hey, the big turtle is having afternoon tea just like us."
"Pfft..." Lu Chuanbei couldn't help but be amused by Song Tiantian.
The big turtle silently glanced at the drone floating beside it, then turned its head and continued to eat. In a short while, the octopus, which looked quite large, was eaten by it until only its head was left and thrown into the sea.
During this period, more than a dozen drones also rushed to the vicinity of the shipwrecks. The big turtle, who could originally distinguish which drone was controlled by Song Tiantian, was immediately shocked when he saw the identical figures everywhere. He immediately left the shipwreck without looking back.
[Hahaha, I'm afraid the big turtle was scared away by the number of drones!]
[Wow, I've never seen a sea turtle so fearless before. It just ran away without even looking back!]
[The big turtle's eyes widened in shock: "So what's going on? Why are there so many drones? The one that's vying for my attention!"]
Not long after, the sea surface suddenly gurgled, and a huge sea turtle quickly poked its head out of the sea and looked towards the detection ship.
As soon as the big turtle saw Song Tiantian lying in front of the railing, it swam over immediately and purred with joy towards Song Tiantian.
Song Tiantian quickly squatted down and stretched out her hand towards the big turtle: "Big turtle, you're finally back, come up quickly."
"Whoosh" the big turtle came close to Song Tiantian's little hand and rubbed it a few times, then put its flippers towards the boat.
Lu Chuanbei, who was standing nearby, quickly found a net bag, put the big turtle into the net bag, and then picked it up.
You know what, this big turtle is quite heavy.
Lu Chuanbei staggered a bit to prevent the net bag in his hand from falling back into the sea. He pulled the net bag up with all his strength and put it on the deck. Only then did he secretly breathe a sigh of relief and maintain his dignity in Song Tiantian's eyes.
As soon as the big turtle got on the boat, it immediately crawled out of the net bag and crawled to Song Tiantian's side. After seeing that Song Tiantian did not have that hateful operation screen in her hand, the big turtle immediately rubbed towards Song Tiantian excitedly.
Song Tiantian couldn't help laughing when it rubbed against her. For a moment, the whole deck was filled with the little girl's cheerful laughter. The sound also made the experts who were detecting the shipwreck laugh.
Just when everyone was immersed in the joy of discovering the shipwrecks, a realistic situation was placed before the experts and others.
That is, the salvage situation is not optimistic.
Especially from the results of the exploration, only the shipwrecks located under the exploration ship are the easiest and most convenient to salvage, while the other shipwrecks located under the cracks on the seabed are in a bit of danger.
It is definitely not possible to use a salvage ship to carry out the operation directly. The entrance of the crack is too small to reach the crane for salvage from below. In addition, even if it can be passed through, it is impossible to properly fix the crane on the sunken ship. An underwater robot must be used to dive to the sunken ship and fix it.
But even so, the shipwreck will encounter difficulties when passing through the crack, because the size of the shipwreck is simply unable to pass through, and the ship can only be dismantled. Of course, this can be done by cutting with underwater robots, but this will not only fail to ensure the integrity of the ship, but may also damage the cultural relics on the ship.
After all, although the operation of underwater robots can be very precise, the situations of some cultural relics are rather special and cannot tolerate any mistakes.
To this end, another way is to enlarge the entrance of the crack, so as to keep the ship as intact as possible and salvage it from the sea as a whole. In this way, the cultural relics will be easier to preserve.
However, the direction of the seabed crack is unknown. If any movement affects the entire body, the collapse of the entire seabed crack will cause more serious damage.
The third situation is to manually dive to the shipwreck and work with underwater robots to collect all the cultural relics inside the ship first, and then deal with the shipwreck at the end.
However, the shipwreck is located in a crack more than 1,000 meters deep on the seabed. Divers can only dive to a depth of about 400 meters with their equipment. Going deeper will cause human damage.
However, this required diving into a crack in the seabed that was more than a thousand meters deep, which made diving even more difficult. For a time, the salvage of the shipwrecks was in trouble.
However, the salvage of the first shipwreck is imminent and ready.
The shipwreck salvage workers who had arrived, after determining the location of the shipwreck and the specific salvage plan, sent underwater robots into the sea.
Some of these underwater robots have built-in robotic arms, some carry cutting machines, and some slide on tracks, etc.
After diving into the seabed, these underwater robots will use the detection equipment they carry to take real-time photos of the situation on site and transmit them back to the ship for experts to make the next plan.
Song Tiantian watched as underwater robots of various sizes fell from the boat and dived toward the seabed. She hurriedly asked Lu Chuanbei to control the drone to follow up and check the operation of the underwater robots on the seabed.
As soon as these robots arrived at the location of the shipwreck, they began to clearly divide the work. Some fixed the shipwreck, some searched for scattered cultural relics around the shipwreck, and some used cutting tools to cut the rocks that stuck the shipwreck so that the shipwreck could be salvaged without obstacles.
Although underwater robots can perform some delicate operations, they cannot compare with humans when it comes to handling cultural relics. Especially when the robot uses its robotic arm to pick up cultural relics on the seabed, everyone is terrified, fearing that its robotic arm will use too much force or that it will not hold the cultural relics firmly and cause secondary damage to the cultural relics.
Song Tiantian nervously tugged at Lu Chuanbei's clothes and said, "Dad, are these robots okay?"
"Don't worry, it won't..." Before Lu Chuanbei finished his words, the tracks of the underwater robot seemed to press on something. Seeing this, Lu Chuanbei couldn't help but gasp, and saw several pieces of porcelain fragments of different sizes appear under the tracks of the underwater robot.
Although they are just fragments, it is easy to imagine that if there is intact porcelain under the robot and it is not detected, the porcelain will also be buried in these fragments.
When the experts saw this situation, they all frowned.
"It still doesn't work. Underwater robots are fine for underwater engineering operations, but they're too crude for protecting cultural relics."
"That's right. If we accidentally crush the cultural relics, the loss will be huge."
"Then what other methods do you have to salvage the shipwreck and also find artifacts near it?"
"I can take the divers and dive directly into the sea to carry out manual operations." The divers who had been of no use responded one after another.
"Yes, let's dive, we can do it."
"No, the decompression density of the human body caused by eight hundred meters of seabed is too strong. If one of you is accidentally injured, it will be more harm than good."
"But……"
"Let the underwater robot temporarily stop its operation while we think of other solutions."
"If that doesn't work, we can also go to Eagle Country's Youlan Deep Sea Exploration Company. I heard they recently released a patent for underwater exploration and salvage, which can salvage treasures from the seabed without damaging the cultural relics."
"I've heard about this, but their company's asking price is quite high..."
"Let's contact them first. If it's really not possible, as long as it doesn't damage the cultural relics, a higher price is not unacceptable."
In this way, the expert group contacted the Eagle Country Blue Deep Sea Exploration Company. This company started out by specializing in salvaging treasure ships on the high seas, and later switched to a deep-sea exploration company. Because of this, this company has always been the leader in the industry in seabed exploration and salvaging shipwrecks, and of course the asking price is also very considerable.
When the experts contacted the Eagle Country's Youlan Deep Sea Exploration Company and asked for a quote, even the prepared experts couldn't help but gasp: "What? You want 20% of the profit from the salvaged ship's value?"
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